Richard III dig: Skeleton DNA results to be announced next month

The results of scientific tests on the Greyfriars remains, believed to be those of King Richard III, will be revealed to the world early next month.

The University of Leicester has scheduled a press conference for Monday, February 4, which will brief the world on the identity of the skeleton found beneath a city council car park in August last year.

Experts at the university have carried out DNA tests, radio carbon-dating, environmental sampling and facial reconstruction to ascertain whether or not the bones are those of the 500-year-old monarch.

The project was instigated by the Richard III Society in association with the university and Leicester City Council.

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in reality the bones of a dead king don't really add much to history and what they found on the site of the friary is more important to History (if perhaps less glamorous) - after all whatever the Richard III Society may say this king was not a particularly good one most notably because he did not keep his throne!